The myth of America's decline : politics, economics, and a half century of false prophecies /

While it may be catnip for the media to play up America as a has-been, Josef Joffe, a German commentator and Stanford University academic, proposes that Declinism is not a cold-eyed diagnosis but a device in the style of the ancient prophets. Gloom is a prophecy that must be believed so that it will...

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